Introduction The legal campaign to use international courts and tribunals to clarify states’ climate obligations under international law reached a historic milestone in 2024. The International Tribunal for the Law
Introduction Few arbitral awards in the history of international law have generated as much controversy, legal scholarship, and geopolitical consequence as the South China Sea Award of 12 July 2016,
Introduction The emergence of cyberspace as a domain of strategic competition has generated one of the most intellectually demanding debates in contemporary international law: does existing international law apply to
Introduction Economic sanctions have become the primary instrument of coercive statecraft for the United States and, increasingly, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and their allies. In the decade between
Introduction On 19 June 2023, after nearly two decades of negotiations, the United Nations concluded the Agreement on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond
Introduction The deployment of artificial intelligence in military targeting systems is reshaping the conduct of armed conflict in ways that the architects of modern international humanitarian law could not have
Introduction The introduction of a global minimum corporate tax rate of fifteen percent under the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework’s Pillar Two framework represents the most significant transformation in international tax law
Introduction The military campaign Israel launched in Gaza following the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023 has generated the most intense legal controversy in the history of the laws of
Introduction Treaty shopping, the practice of structuring corporate or financial arrangements to route investments through a third jurisdiction so as to access more favourable bilateral investment treaty protections, has long
Introduction The Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 set in motion one of the most consequential legal episodes in modern international law. Beyond the immediate humanitarian